Boris Khaikin

Boris Emmanuilovich Khaikin[1] (Russian: Борис Эммануилович Хайкин; Belarusian: Барыс Эмануілавіч Хайкін; 26 October [O.S. 13 October] 1904 – 10 May 1978) was a Soviet and Russian conductor who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1972.

Biography

Khaikin was born in Minsk, then part of the Russian Empire. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Nicolai Malko and Konstantin Saradzhev.[2] He was artistic director of the Little Leningrad Opera Theatre in 1936-43 and the principal conductor at the Kirov Theatre in 1944-53, where he conducted the première of Sergei Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery on 3 November 1946. He moved to the Bolshoi Theatre in 1954.

He died in Moscow, and was buried in the Donskoye Cemetery.

Discography

Khaikin is noted for his two critically acclaimed recordings of Khovanshchina: a 1946 edition with Mark Reizen, and a 1972 version with Irina Arkhipova. His record of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's little known early first symphony received good notices. Khaikin also recorded several operas and ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, notably a Eugene Onegin with Galina Vishnevskaya and Sergei Lemeshev.

Other opera recordings include:

Footnotes
  1. Sometimes also transliterated as "Khajkin" or "Chaikin" or also (in German) as "Khaikin".
  2. Bnet
  3. It is not clear whether Khaikin recorded the opera in the original Tatar version of 1957, or in Russian translation

References
  • B. Khajkin at IMDb Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
  • N.N.:"The Bolshoi Theatre". Archived from the original on June 12, 2002. Retrieved July 19, 2006. . Archived URL last accessed July 19, 2006.
  • Naxos biography Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine


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